Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19251, Robert Farley, Mass Sea Service

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass Sea Service
Farley, Robert Susanna K.
W. 1925-1
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e No. 19251  Susanna H. Farley  Widow of  Robert Farley  Sergt. 2d. Reg. Mass.  Act: July 7 th 1838  Index:—Vol. 4 , Page 227
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Massachusetts - 369
Susanna K. Farley, widow of Robert Farley, dec. who was pensioned under the Act of and who died on the 20 th July 1821 at Essex - in the State of Mass - who was a Sgt. & D.W.S. in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt. commanded by [blank] in the Mass. [blank] line for 8 mos & 17 dy.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 42 Dollars 81 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834
Certificate of Pension issued the [blank] day of Sept 38, and sent to and issued at Caldwell, Special, Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept $107 07 Semi-annual allowance ending 21 41
$128 48
{ Act July 7, } 1838.
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk Book A - Vol. 1 - Page 87

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss. PROBATE OFFICE.
I Nathaniel Lord junior, register of probate for said county, hereby certify, that Daniel A. White is judge of probate for said county of Essex, and that his name subscribed to the certificate of oath of Susanna H. Farley to her declaration hereto annexed is his genuine signature. I also certify that Josiah Holdwell is a justice of the peace for said county and that his name subscribed to the several affidavits hereto annexed of David J. Kimball, Thomas Kimball and Thomas Ross and Nathaniel Heard is his genuine signature.
as appears by the records in said office.
Given under my hand and seal of office, this seventeenth day of August, A. D. 1838.
Nath. Lord Jr.

I. David D. Kimball, pastor of the first Church in Ipswich in the county of Essex, and state of Massachusetts, hereby certify, that in the record of Marriages of said Church kept by my predecessor in office Rev. Levi Finsbie - the following is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows - Novr. 30, 1786 At - " jutant Robert Farley to Miss Susannah Kendall, both of Ipswich. Ipswich, Aug. 6, 1838. David D. Kimball.
I. David D. Kimball above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Pastor in the county, town and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the record, of said Church, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Ipswich, Aug. 6, 1838. David D. Kimball, Pastor of the First Church in Ipswich.
State of Massachusetts,
Essex County } ss. August 6, 1838. The Rev. David D. Kimball above named made oath that the foregoing by him subscribed are true before me Josiah Colacreey Justice of the Peace.

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Susanna K. Farley widow of Robert
Mass
act. 7. June '38
5 years
Married in 1786.
No roll of Perkins - & no evi- dence of that term.
Vol 22. p. 153 - Serf. No. 4 26., 345. 2 nd W. Serf. 3. 13.
Absent
5 mo. 4 Serf.
3. 13 2 nd W Serf.
8. 17.
$42.83 p. ann
no deduction
Isiah C. Dorr
Groton Mass.

Declaration—
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 7 th of July 1838, — entitled "An act granting half pay and pension, to certain widows."
State of Massachusetts
Essex County } ss. On this seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, Personally appeared before the Honorable Daniel D. White Esquire, Judge of Probate for said County — Suzannah E. Farley a resident of Ipswich in the county and state aforesaid aged sixty nine years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pension, to certain widows" That she is the widow of Robert Farley, late of said Ipswich who was a private, Sergeant and Quarters Master Sergeant in the Revolutionary war, — He was in 1776 a private in a company, Captain Perkins of Topsfield at White Plains in New York, attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Cogswell at the time the American Army retreated to New Jersey — The term of his service was three months. — In June 1777 he was first Sergeant in Col. Nathan Prince's Company Col. Pugh's Regiment of Infantry, stationed in the State of Rhode Island till the close of the Campaign which was on the 31 st day of December 1777 being six months. By a pay roll found among the papers of the late Col. Nathl. Wade of Ipswich it is ascertained that he was Quarters Master Sergeant of his (Col. Wade's) Regiment in 1780 and that he served in that office three months and 13 days at Westpoint and other places in New York, and was at Westpoint at the time Major Andre was taken and executed as a spy. Subsequently he was in the sea service and was taken by the Chatham Ship of War and made a prisoner on board the ship Jersey where he was detained, suffering almost incredible hardships and cruelty, to the close of the war, a period of nine months. His contemporaries award him the praise of having been  him distinguished for his ardor and courage in his country's cause although he was but a youth of 16 or 17 years when he enlisted in the service. He preserved for many years papers of value from which documentary evidence could have been drawn in support of his widow's claim to a pension but they are lost; it It is believed that the records in the Department of War will corroborate the above

statements which will be supported by the affidavits of competent and respectable men of this place. —
She further declares that she was married to the said Robert Farley on the 30 th day of November A.D. 1786. That her husband, the aforesaid Robert Farley died on the 20 th day of July A.D. 1823. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated.
Hannah B. Farley
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
before
D. H. Hill Judge of Probate

State of Massachusetts,
Essex County } ss. Thomas Kimball of Ipswich in said County, Mariner, maketh oath, and saith, that he is a petitioner of the United States, and that he, of his own knowledge, believes the foregoing declaration of Sarah M c Farley widow of Robert Farley Esquire late of said Ipswich deceased, to be true. Thos. Kimball
Sworn to this 13 th day of August 1838 and subscribed,
Before me Josiah Cushing,
Justice of the Peace.
State of Massachusetts,
Essex County } ss. We. Thomas Ross and Nathaniel Heard both of Ipswich in said County, petitioners of the United States, having had personal knowledge of the services of Robert Farley late of said Ipswich, in the Revolutionary war have no hesita- tion in declaring our full belief of the truth of the foregoing declaration subscribed by his widow - Sarah M c Farley.
Thomas Ross
Nathaniel Heard
Essex ss. Ipswich Aug. 13. 1838 - Thomas Ross and Nathaniel Heard above-named personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing by them subscribed is true to the best of their knowledge and belief
Before me Josiah Cushing, Justice of the Peace.